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14Book Review: The Rhetoric of Science (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 29 (2): 329-335. 1999.
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26Book Review: Harmon, J. E., and Gross, A. G. (Eds.). (2007). The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour. Chicago: the Chicago University Press (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 39 (1): 122-123. 2009.
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4Bunge NeverthelessBungeMarioPolitical Philosophy: Fact, Fiction and Vision. New Brunswick NJ: Transaction Publications, 2009. Pp. x + 424 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 43 (4): 542-562. 2013.Mario Bunge offers here a political philosophy and a view of current politics as judged by his vision of an integrated democracy that is thoroughly green, quasi-communalist, participatory, and quasi-socialist; all enterprises there belong to their workers. He tempers his egalitarianism with some meritocracy. His vision is impracticable but deserves examination.
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32Book Review: Stadler, F., and Fischer, K. R., editors. (2006). Paul Feyerabend: ein Philosoph aus Wien. Vienna: Springer (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 38 (2): 303-305. 2008.
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56On the definition of lifeJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 25 (1). 1994.Schrödinger's definition of life needs a slight modification to absorb the criticism of it. It is the comparison of the entropy level of a system before and after a process which makes one view it as living: we consider the stability of the deviation from the probable a sign of life. This explains why we do not hesitate to consider as remnants of living systems skeletons and fossils anywhere and physical culture on any archeological site
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20Towards a rational philosophical anthropologyM. Nijhoff. 1977.The thesis of the present volume is critical and dual. (1) Present day philosophy of man and sciences of man suffer from the Greek mis taken polarization of everything human into nature and convention which is (allegedly) good and evil, which is (allegedly) truth and fal sity, which is (allegedly) rationality and irrationality, to wit, the polar ization of all fields of inquiry, the natural and social sciences, as well as ethics and all technology, whether natural or social, into the totally pos…Read more
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